A new cafe bar in Bridgend has been granted a permanent licence to serve alcohol despite residents living nearby saying they are at the end of their tether with noise coming from the venue late at night.

No 11 Cafe Bar, which opened just under a year ago in Ewenny Road, Bridgend, is a cafe during the day but also opens on certain nights for events ranging from live music to Q&As with sports stars.

Until now the cafe bar, co-owned by Xenia Yardley and Ceri Howley, has operated with a Temporary Event Notice but a permanent premises licence provides greater flexibility when it comes to putting on events.

The owners say they only want to run a couple of ticketed events each month and have agreed to a number of conditions as part of the licence which permits the cafe bar to sell alcohol from 11am until 11pm from Monday to Sunday.

The conditions include no longer permitting any drinks purchased at the cafe bar to be taken outside of the premises and ensuring customers leave in a “respectful” manner.

But while residents living nearby are all for the business they say it is in the wrong location – being just “steps away” from residential properties – and claim noise from music events held to date have caused their windows to shake and woken up their children.

They told councillors at Bridgend County Borough Council’s licensing committee on Thursday, August 23, that events can be rowdy and the level of noise was made worse due to the door being propped open allowing the sound from amplified live music to travel.